skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telling response on why these systems don’t evolve to be more user friendly from “Gavin Smith”:

It could be made easier to get started with automake. For example,
"AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=foreign" should be the default; otherwise automake
refuses to finish if required files aren't found in the project.
There's a political problem here to persuade people of this. The
documentation could also be improved. I remember somebody was
complaining about this page:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Progr...
and asking what "maude" meant - it turned out it was the name of the
dog or something of the person who first wrote the program, who didn't
want it to change. So think getting consensus is impossible for
changes that are needed to make the program simpler, easier and
better. There's a vacuum of responsibility where nobody wants to step
on others' feet. Forking the project would go nowhere as nobody would
use the fork.
I stumbled upon this while trying to pick up Nix(OS), and was surprised as Large-Generic-Retail-Chain-n was one of the last places I'd think of finding interesting/{"new", "faddy"} OS tech stuff
This was so cool to read! I had a similar experience with my product[1] hitting the front page last week.

The high level stats for mine were that it sent 18k visitors to my site and generated $1815 the first day it was up.

The following day had 5.8k visitors and generated $1100 of sales.

The coolest part was getting connected with interesting people from cool companies. Got connected with a YC founder, a few folks at big engineering companies, and some fellow indie hackers.

It’s kind of nerve wracking posting a Show HN, but the benefits were great for me. Most of the comments were positive. Got some super valuable feedback as well that will help improve the product.

[1] https://www.vim.so
I am going to guess all those sudden jerks are the build breaking on the latest commit.
if you are not doing lte then probably yes, otherwise you should stick with pgw etc
Instead of an instance, you could just rent a dedicated server with some mirrored TB of drives.

For example, https://www.server4you.com/dedicated-server has 2x 2TB for $25/mo in St. Louis, MO and unmetered bandwidth.

OVH Cloud in the U.S. has servers with 32GB of RAM and also 2x2TB drives starting at $59/mo and unmetered bandwidth. (both of these are French companies that are expanding into the U.S.) If you are interested in other locations (including Canada), check out ovh.com, kimsufi.com, and soyoustart.com (all part of the enormous OVH global footprint).

If you're in EMEA, or don't mind an extra 100 or so millisecond (SSH works fine), check out OVH and Scaleway (France), and of course Hetzner (Germany). Each of these offer dedicated servers for very reasonable prices, and copious amounts of bandwidth with reasonable pings to almost anywhere.

For example, https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml currently has 500GB hard drive servers with Intel Atoms available for $5/mo in both Canada and France, or bigger hard drives for just a few bucks more. This is OVH's cheapest line of servers, but OVH does a pretty extensive burn-in test before deploying them to you, and they tend to be pretty solid. (keep backups in case a hard drive fails, but that's always a good idea anyway.)
Wow. that's quite the mouthful.

It goes to show that there is no guarantees that a company is standing by its word.

I imagine in the wild there are a ton of companies who "in theory" are open source, but they're just chunk of useless code by itself, opaque enough to not be obvious.

In reality a lot of companies appear to show off their internal deployment bits, leaving all the IP safely tucked away, whilst looking "open".

But that's no different that people using their github account as a portfolio showpiece, and dipping in as many projects as possible.
That user appears to be shadowbanned; all of their comments start off as dead until someone vouches for them.
Rowing is coming to Zwift, and you can already connect and row bike routes.
Government pamphlets like this typically don't have one author.
The advantage of a monorepo over a lot of smaller repositories is that you can make changes across your entire codebase at once. A new feature might involve adding a new api in /api, and updating the mobile apss in /android and /ios, as well as the webapp in /app. You might also mention the feature in the documentation (/docs), as well as the website in /www, and so on. All of those changes happen as part of a single merge to master (or whatever branch system you prefer) and are discussed in a single issue. Simplicity is the whole point, so you just assign the whole issue to a milestone and you're done.
$330 per year in savings sounds a bit low to me. I can save that much (or more) just with car repairs or maintenance. Even basic household stuff will typically cost $50-100 just for "the guy" to show up.
Would there be a way to use "information entropy" as the measurement? Late in the day so I'm struggling to finish my thoughts, but putting this here in case you can connect the dots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
Yes, up to 35% during the Carboniferous period, which allowed a whole host of creatures to get much bigger than they are today. I'm not sure when it dropped to the modern 21%, though.

https://forces.si.edu/atmosphere/02_02_06.html
Genuine question: if we're in a collapse scenario that is so devastating to the global supply chain that we're scavenging microcontrollers, how do we generate electricity to power them? Solar panels and batteries don't last forever and would presumably require the same or similar supply chain as the microcontrollers. This is a cool project regardless, but in such a catastrophic scenario it seems easier to just give up on computing and go back to more primitive technology. If I can't get a single thing delivered, I see myself collecting rainwater and gardening, not compiling Forth to an old Z80.
Plenty of industrial systems have been working fine, unchanged, for decades.

An example off the top of my head -- a CNC mill at my previous job, purchased new perhaps ten years ago, runs DOS 6.22 with Windows CE on top. I suspect that the vendor is still selling the same software stack on the same hardware today.

Before someone chimes in to say, "That's insane, why isn't it running an RTOS?": That mill had zero software faults in the years I worked with it.

Edit: Poking around Trak's website, it looks like the software on today's machines is unchanged. Here are some example screenshots: https://www.southwesternindustries.com/software/page/prototr...
Can you provide us with (preferably drop-in) replacement of LMDB as a proof?

Because your big-O looks like big-O of cache-oblivious algorithm and I saw no proof of that.
I don't know of much public information other than their job postings.
What's wrong with the website?
And they will continue to run. No one in their right mind will ever upgrade the software on them. That is a lot of the reason behind removing old platforms from Linux: whatever the systems out there are running, it's not a HEAD kernel release.
Watch a young Elon Musk get his first supercar in 1999
Actual Linux on mobiles can't come soon enough.

Google aren't running AI on these listings. Its just a regex and perhaps some graph queries to pick up suspicious activity. I doubt any appeal will work unless the social media angle gets large enough. Maybe they should try twitter as well.

Think yourself lucky in these circumstances that you even know the actual reason for the suspension and not just some generic message like "it violates our T&Cs".
Yep, most every serious Physicist today agrees, it's more likely we're not "seeing" everything. Slit experiment, Entanglement, etc. prove we're missing lots of the picture. All the particles popping in and out of existence...seems like really they're just 'passing thru' and we only see them a fraction of the time, because most of the time they're in some 'realm' we've only thus far managed to label as "Wave Probability"
A cell has a lot of atoms, which may store a lot of information?
Does anyone have a bhop script for this game
You're either talking about formation of the gut tube (gastrulation) or the formation of the neural tube after that (neurulation).
I'm not saying the project is without value; I think if the author or others find educational/aesthetic/recreational/etc benefit from it, that's great.

It is like TempleOS. Not useful for its purported purpose of communicating with God, but nonetheless interesting and valuable as an example of a single person developing a programming language and OS, which even has a few novel ideas in it.
Wouldn’t that imply that we’d find independent genesis of replicating molecules frequently even now?
Oh, I think we're referring to different things. I thought you were referring to this:

https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/132408570469203149...

Wherein people posted views from the other side of the glass claiming they were trying to count the votes in secret or something. Which was ironic, given all the news crews and observers on the other side of the glass documenting the same thing.

I agree that its BS to keep observers so far back that they cannot meaningfully observe the counting.
In that case, you would need to get rid of derivative markets and perhaps leveraging mechanism such as margins.

I do believe banning certain instruments from the market can have a positive effect, but I'm not sure if short-sell is one of them.
Pilots are written down as the Primary cause, but the secondary cause can frequently involve the pilot operating the engine badly.

For example: a pilot forgets to turn on the carb heat on descent, leading to loss of engine power, and crash short of the runway. Primary cause is pilot error.

The engine on a small plane is failure prone, and easy to make mistakes on. The Beavers in question are operating on an engine design from the 1930s (Pratt and Whitney Wasp 985). The major compnonents on those engines likely haven't (and can't for bureaucratic reasons) changed since the 50s. On a plane like the Beaver, a majority of the gauges are devoted to the engine. If you get a chance to fly on one of these, you'll notice that a majority of what the pilot does pre-takeoff is engine checks.

Making the engine simpler is making it easier to fly the plane, and eliminates another source of pilot error.
There was a bit of a catch-22 in many of these. There was statistical and/or witness evidence that looking more closely at dominion machines and/or ballots was warranted.
However, the only way to actually be allowed to look was during discovery ... which required a suit to actually be heard rather than dismissed. So you don't get to go looking for evidence because you are told you don't have any evidence.

I remember this county being an early catch that angered many on the right, where people actually made an effort to recount. I wonder how many here are aware of it? https://www.westernjournal.com/michigan-recount-confirms-tru...

We are told by the "fact check" websites that we may (and must) disregard the conclusions [2] that Navid Keshavarz-Nia [1] swore an affidavit to, because there is no proof. But how can we get such proof without the cases actually being heard? Left leaning people in general, and HN posters in particular have a disdain for those who make up the non-urban, non-coastal heart of the USA. But wouldn't it have been better to allow these cases to come to trial, so that the nation could actually determine the facts and begin to heal?

[1] https://www.wnd.com/2020/11/4873267/
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201202043332/https://www.court...
I think food grades would be tricky. Just about anything in moderation can be healthy.
Here's the direct video: https://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video/772/995/14428...
Out of curiosity, do you use a headset (or airpods, or anything like that)? I've found that I tend to speak a lot louder when wearing some sort of headphones due to the fact that I can't hear my voice as well, so I tend to do calls using my webcam's microphone and an external speaker so that I can talk normally. This might not be an option for you if you don't live alone, but if you have some degree of privacy while writing, I'd highly recommend trying this out!
Show HN: Email forwarding for your domain – my SaaS after 10 years of failure
> GNU project status discourages new contributors because of the
paperwork requirements

Can somebody elaborate this point? Does that mean I need to go through paperwork even for contributing a bug fix?
Hi Hacker News,

I have been trying to build and launch a SaaS app for the last 10 years. Every times is yet another failure and never seen its light. One day, in process of setting up another SaaS and buy a domain and setup email. I said it would be great to forward email to my personal email, all I want is a way to receive email to those domains. So I went ahead and built this service. Now, all I need is point MX records to my app and can receiving emails. All of my emails are powered by this service since the last 3 months.

Eventually I can see I need other things such as webhook to process incoming email via HTTP request and finally in 2021, after 10 years, my first SaaS see its light.

Using my app's webhook feature you can build workflow similar to "Mail to kindle" or "Send email to create a support ticket" of Zendeck. An example I built with webhook is https://pix.fastloop.xyz . If you want to process incoming email, give my service a try too.

Let me know how you think. Any feedback is appreciated.
Target has an enormous engineering organization. On par with major banks.
I would pin this post to the top if I could. Thanks for this info!
And what happens if a company successfully lobbies to exempt themselves from this? This will just become another form of regulatory capture. It’s not clear to me that there’s a market failure of any kind here.
Could this also explain why people in the Netherlands got so tall so quickly? Maybe by being below the level of the ocean they get more oxygen?

Edit: there’s no mention about oxygen or seal level in this article about Dutch people’s quick increase in height over the last 150 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try...
For a disease which affects literally everyone as they age, presbyopia is astonishingly unknown. I didn't hear about it at all until I started working on VR and eye tracking.
The point is that you don't want this convenience, implemented in any way. You want to be sure that all the invocations of stuff like `ssh` or `sudo` or even plain `cat` would actually come from your OS userland, and not some executable that happens to be in the current directory.
What's the point of this? The original vulnerability was "I execute an untrusted binary because my shell searched an untrusted directory". Isn't this just reimplementing PATH and still subject to the same vulnerability?
It's no so cut and dry though. If you've ever watched golf on TV you will notice that the most prominent advertising is for insurance companies (User) not golf equipment (Content). They are advertising to the cohort of users that watch golf on tv (rich business people).

It's all user targeting.
I think that is the point of the parent. People made numerous crossing between Asia and America as it was and is simple with good canoes (and later kayaks).

Note also that Kamchatka is not that far from Chukotsky and it is not far fetched to think that the Aino peoples from Northern Japan could have some shared cultures with the Yubik peoples, the latter bringing that culture to Northern America and the Indians that had been living there for 10.000 years.
Serious Question: Why is everyone assuming they're lying? And why doesn't anyone want to prove Biden won?

From my perspective, the accusations he made were completely dodged by Dominion and by Democrats (since their guy was labeled the winner by the media). I'm not aware of any individual claim that was debunked via substantiating evidence. They refused to answer, refused to report it in the media, and ran full speed in the opposite direction.
I was talking about the deductions for positive externalities of fossile fuel.
Trying to figure out how biology works probably isn't much different than it would be to figure out how an alien spacecraft works.
If it's closed source, then what's this: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense ?

Genuine question.

And wow. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2018/2018-04-30-p...
As someone who manages an order of magnitude greater database than that for an app founded in 2008 (and that's after multiple archivings of unused data, and no severe crimes like storing image blobs in the DB), I can tell you that, uhm, Coffee Meets Bagel is either not that successful, or is doing a very good job at managing their DB size.
So why would one pick Hush over other coins like Zcash? Because of less metadata leakage?

What I am trying to get at is, what value does Hush have in the real world? It's a privacy coin cool, but how can it be adopted/used by institutions etc. And if the tech is so great why is no one using it right now?
Is there anything commercial that is both cheap and popular that doesn't cut corners to get there?

edit: Point being, I don't see how DO could get their act together as their business model essentially requires them to act like this. If they don't cut corners in one area then they will somewhere else.
Open sourcing software security flaws more prone to discovery, but also enables more people to discover the flaws, which can be a good thing.

If you hide away the source code, then only criminal actors and security agencies can evaluate security flaws. Open sourcing, at least, places legitimate security researchers on equal footing with these groups, so flaws can be disclosed publicly and rectified.

That being said, I think there are sufficient safeguards in the process that effectively mitigate any potential compromising of Dominion software. The software prints out the voters' ballot and the voter is given an opportunity to review the ballot before scanning it with a separate machine and it entering a locked box. This allows for a manual recount to guard against any possible shenanigans.

One additional step they could take, would be for the voter to verify their vote after scanning. This would ensure that they actually read the ballot. Though I could see that causing problems if the voter, for whatever reason, decided to repudiate their vote while travelling between the two machines.
It's funny--we used to run Vertica on ephemeral nodes and actually found a performance improvement going to EBS, but that was pre-NVMe in AWS.

I wonder how big the delta was for CMB between EBS and ephemeral?
Aside from the fact that Starlink connections are or two orders of magnitude better in throughput and latency, the biggest problem with Iridium is the cost. It's just simply out of the realm of affordability just for the likes of streaming some videos or playing games in their off-time.

Now that I think about it though, the Starlink user terminals likely won't be able to survive the harsh winters at the poles. -30 deg C and low tolerance for high winds means this would be tough unless some type of non-obstructive sheltering could be provided.
> There's no value in a flame war, regardless of which side is the majority. Extremely heated subjects do not lead to positive results here or anywhere. The only way to win as a person is not to play the game despite the very strong temptation.

I agree, and the oblique War Games reference is appreciated.

> Do you believe all opinions and expressions of those opinions are equally valuable and require equal advertisement?

(Who would believe such a thing? Well, I guess there was the FCC Fairness Doctrine, but fortunately that's gone.)

Of course not all opinions are equally valuable, but an echo chamber of people parroting the party line also has no value. In fact, that has negative value to me; I'd prefer a cacophony of divergent opinions to a single narrative.

I'd just like to see the top 10 or 20 comments instead of the top single comment.
Actually, this isn't true.

First - SF was not 'tech' until the mid 2000's.

Some people - yes. But no HQs.

The Silicon Vally was where it was at.

Also - up until the 1990's at least, the Valley was just a burb, mostly affordable, not outrageous except in some little spots.

In the 2000's it started to get weird and 2010+ is when it got 'bad bad' and SF became a true hub.

In the 1990's regular folk could buy homes, Engineers could buy normal homes on normal terms. Large swaths of SF ware garbage.
Seems like a LEO-to-LEO laser link would be shorter, lower noise, and lower power for the same bandwidth as a GEO-Earth link.
Looks like this can simplify how we currently manage our enterprise accounts a lot. Very cool!
If only this were true.

(By "modern" I assume you mean densely-spaced [~10um] multi-pad linear silicon probes, the NeuroPixel being the most celebrated example among the non-specialist public.)

What many pads close together can give you is the potential for the waveform from a spike nearby to register on more than one pad.

In theory this should make spike-sorting easier, because you can distinguish two neurons whose spikes might have the same waveform on pad #1 but different waveforms on pad #2.

In practice, spike sorting improves, but not by as much as you'd think.

Part of this is down to physical factors (which are improving): probe geometry, pad shape, pad material, pad impedance, and so on.

Another part is down to software (which is also improving). Single-channel spike-sorting is by now probably close to as good as it's going to get given the information content of its input, and the algorithms and software to perform it are well-understood and stable.

Algorithmic approaches to multi-channel spike sorting, however, are the subject of active research with multiple promising avenues of progress, and software to perform it is ... well, charitably, let's call it "rough-and-ready." (It's nearly all lab-grown software, which means it's written by enthusiastic amateur programmers [among whom I'd count myself, no shade intended here] who soon move on to new projects because of the structure of academic science. This means the software is buggy, poorly documented, inconsistently supported, and constantly evolving.)

Now, using dense silicon arrays does markedly increase the rate at which I can record well-isolated neurons, but a significant part of this increase is just having more pads in the target brain region - many of the neurons I get from these multi-channel spike-sorting programs only show significant power on one or two pads.

And all of this doesn't even touch on some of the significant challenges that come with using multi-electrode arrays, including higher initial inflammation, later gliosis, and data-collection and storage (a 64-channel array [NB: the NeuroPixel 1 can record from 384 pads] producing 16-bit ints at 20kHz [just about the minimum sampling rate for decent spike-sorting] generates a bit less than 10GB/hour - a volume that real big data people might laugh at, but it sure isn't small!).

And finally, all of this is done off-line. On-line spike-sorting is harder.

So I'm sorry to say that just having a modern multi-electrode array absolutely does not make things "quite a lot simpler."
If it hasn't changed recently, you have to send in paperwork assigning your contribution to GNU as to maintain a single copyright owner.
I don't often say this but they should probably throw it away and rewrite it from scratch with a smaller vision. There is no part of the current code that should actually be kept. There is no place for a pile of Bourne, m4, and perl in today's stack.
It's from an era before ubiquitous MMUs, even in IBM mainframes. It therefore was structured as a library OS, with even less separation between it and the application code than even MSDOS and it's applications.

Transaction Processing Facility: A Guide for Application Programmers by R. Jason Martin is a decent book I'd recommend on the subject.